Check-pad



(No Model.) 4

' H. G. WOOLWORTH.

OHEGK PAD.

Patented July 2, 1895.

' U ITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

HERBERT GRANT WOOLWORTH, OF TROY, N YORK.

CHECK-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 542,128, dated July 2, 1895.

Application filed August 1'7, 1894. Serial No. 520,635. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT GRANT WooL- WORTH, of the city of Troy, county of Reusselaer, and State of New York, have invented a new, useful, and. Improved Manifolding Check-Pad, which is set forth and described in the specification following, and shown in the drawings.

The object of my invention is to better enable the proprietor of a large retail store to discover mistakes and detect frauds on the part of the cashier and to afford a means of easily comparing accounts between clerks sales persons, &c., and the cashier.

My invention relates to an improvement in a 'manifolding-machine called a check-pad, in which a roll of paper perforated into small squares is used in conjunction with a roll of plain paper, both of which are journaled in a receptacle provided with a slot through which the paper can be drawn to a fiat surface, upon which, by the use of carbon impression-paper, a copying-pad is made, by means of which the check-slip delivered to the cashier is duplicated upon another paper in the instrument, the instrument having a locking arrangement, so that none of the paper, after having once been placed in position, cannot be removed or shifted except by a person having a key.

Figure l of the drawings is a perspective showing instrument ready for use. Fig. 2 is a sectional view showing working parts.

Reference being had to the drawings above mentioned, the following is, a description of my invention:

The base is formed by an oblong board, upon which at one end is constructed the box A for the purpose of containing the paper rolls B and C, the box having a hinged cover and is capable of being locked. Along the sides of the base-board are fastened grooved guide-strips. Across the end is also fastened a strip having a slot through which the paper can be drawn. From the top edge of the front side of the box A, at each end, is a hole made through to the slot D, in which is inserted the pin H, which when the box is closed the cover forcesthrough the paper and prevents any paper being drawn out or shifted except by those having akey to open the box. The pin H is held up when the box is open by spiral spring I, as shown in sectional view, Fig. 2.

The box A is to contain the two rolls of paper B and O, which roll on a shaft journaled in the sides of the box. One roll is of plain white paperB and the other is of white paper perforated into small squares G. The plain paper from roll Bis brought through the slot D and is drawn through the grooves in the side strips to the opposite end and through slot E in the end strip, as shown in Fig. 1. One end of the sheet of carbon impression-paper 'F is then fastened by means of a tongue and groove in the cross-piece G, which is permanently fastened in the box between the two rolls of paper. The carbon paper is then brought through the slot D and placed face downward upon the paper of roll B. The perforated paper from roll 0 is in the same manner brought through the slot D and placed on the impression-paper. The cover of the boxis then closed and locked and the instrument is ready for use.

When a purchase is made, the sales person writes the amount upon one of the small squares of the perforated paper, tears the same out, and delivers .it to the cashier. It will be readily seen that an impression of the amount written upon the paper of roll 0 will be made upon the paper of roll B, and that in this manner an accurate account can be easily kept between the sales person and the cashier.

I am well aware of the fact that the use of carbon impression-paper is very common in connection with instruments of various kinds. Therefore I do not claim such combination broadly; but

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a manifolding apparatus, the combination with a box having a movable cover and means for supporting a plurality'of rolls of paper therein, one side of the box being cut away and the base thereof extending forward so as to form a writing support, of locking devices actuated by the cover so as to prevent any paper being drawn from the box when the cover is closed, and suitable means for supporting the carbon paper sheet substantially as described. v

HERBERT GRANT WOOLWORTH.

Witnesses:

E. L. PETTIs, MARTIN L. TOWNSEND. 

